Tom Vilsack, a former Iowa governor and the U.S. secretary of agriculture under former presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden, ...

For many decades, California has been the leading agricultural state in terms of the value of agricultural goods, marketed, generating $58 billion in agricultural cash receipts in 2023, outpacing ...

I’m the son of an Icelandic father and a Swiss mother. That would mean I’m 50/50. I am a direct descendant of immigrant families to the United States from 1900 to 1920. We appear as ...

Des Moines leaders, urban farmers and nonprofits are working to create a public orchard stocked with fruit-bearing trees like apple, peach and cherry.

"If our graduates don’t make family-sustaining wages, we’re not going to offer the program anymore," a Southwest Wisconsin ...

State representatives approved a budget from the Senate May 13 that would increase funding for agriculture and natural ...

Many of Wisconsin’s farmers come from Scottish backgrounds, as does this editor. This story reflects that our farming ...

Belgian Blue cattle breeders share their experiences with the extraordinarily muscled animals that produce lean, but tasty, ...

The land is farmed as New Age Custom Farming, where the Elsings custom harvest and plant for other farmers. They also custom raise between 500-600 heifers for another dairy. Greg’s two sons and ...

The owner of a small northeast Iowa dairy recently agreed to pay $1,260 for contaminating a nearby creek with an unknown amount of manure a year ago, according to the state Department of Natural ...

For a state its size and its location, Iowa saw more than its share of the profession's top designers pass through in the 1910s and 20s. Donald Ross, Charles Alison, Tom Bendelow, William Langford ...